EXT4 heads up...

Jerry McBride jmcbride at mail-on.us
Thu Dec 24 06:15:07 PST 2009


On Thursday 17 December 2009 10:17:32 Doug Hunley wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 19:42, Jerry McBride <jmcbride at mail-on.us> wrote:
> >> If you look, those should be security fixes, not data loss/corruption
> >>  issues
> >
> > I looked the fixes over and I cant recall "security" being mentioned.
> > Personally, I use ext4 quite a bit too. I was really taken back seeing so
> > many ext4 patches this "late in the game".
> 
> http://secunia.com/advisories/37658/
> 

I just took a break and counted the number of ext4 fixes in the .1 patch. 
There's 29 not including the security fix... Wow. That's a lot of activity!


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